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Jason Klocek is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Fellow. His research and teaching examine the role of religion in conflict, state counterinsurgency and repression, and civil wars and political violence more broadly.

Klocek's dissertation investigates the role state forces play play in obstructing the peaceful resolution of religious civil wars, with a particular focus on British counterinsurgency operations during the early postwar period. This project draws on eight months of archival research in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and Israel. The theory and findings challenge the influential notion that dissidents’ spiritual beliefs alone drive the intractibility of religious conflicts.

Klocek's published work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Conflict Resolution(with Peter Henne), St. Antony's International Review, and edited volumes on religion and politics (with Ron. E. Hassner), the military chaplaincy (with Ron E. Hassner) and interfaith dialogue (with Cristina Novoa and Fathali M. Moghaddam). During the 2015 fall semester, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice at Uppsala University. He is the recipient of the 2015 Weber Best Paper Award from the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and the 2015 Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Religion and International Relations Section of the International Studies Association. His research was recently featured on the Research on Religion podcast.

Klocek has also served as a consultant for transitional justice projects at Georgetown University and the University of Notre Dame. The former included fieldwork in Rwanda and South Sudan. Klocek holds an M.A. in Political Science from UC, Berkeley (2010) and an M.A. in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University (2009). He served with the U.S. Peace Corps in Turkmenistan from 2003-2005.